State v. Sullivan

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. CASEY LIEM SULLIVAN (SC 20965) Mullins, C. J., and McDonald, D’Auria, Ecker, Alexander and Dannehy, Js. Syllabus The defendant appealed, on the granting of certification, from the judgment of the Appellate Court, which had affirmed his conviction of unlawful restraint in the second degree, sexual assault in the fourth degree, attempt to commit sexual assault in the third degree, and sexual assault in the third degree. During rebuttal closing argument, the prosecutor listed four defenses that, according to her, defendants ‘‘usually’’ raise in criminal cases, and she…